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Indian Wells and the Miami Open like Robin Hood: they will take from the rich to give to the poor. This is the new, virtuous policy of the two Sunshine Doubles tournaments. The two combined events decreased the prize money for the winner, finalist and semi-finalists.
At the same time, the prize money for players who play the qualifiers and stop in the first rounds of the competition will be significantly increased. Will the choice of the two tournaments be followed by other events during this season? This is a positive response to the appeal carried out by Novak Djokovic’s PTPA, which makes this topic one of the pillars of its political foundations.
An important change has been made by the organizations of the two tournaments, which have decided to distribute the total prize money up for grabs differently. The competition thus wanted to lend a helping hand to all those second-tier athletes.
Suffice it to say that whoever enters the main draw and immediately exits in the first round will receive a prize of $30 thousand. Indian Wells and Miami have at the same time tried to entice tennis players to travel and take part in the North American hard court tour in March.
In fact, in recent years, there were several players around…
